“Your history is not only your history but it’s embedded in a global perspective as well,” Professor Annette Scheunpflug remarked as she gave the keynote address at Dublin City University’s recent seminar on the history of Protestant comprehensive schools.
The Revd Professor Anne Lodge, who leads the Church of Ireland Centre at DCU, has presented new research into Protestant compreheneive schools, drawing on interviews and document archives, to tell their origin and contemporary stories and how their lived ethos is expressed.
Dr Ken Fennelly, who serves as Secretary to the General Synod’s Board of Education, shared a story of three parts from his own PhD research into the history of Protestant boarding schools.
An audience gathered at Dublin City University’s Purcell House recently to explore the unique story of the five Irish Protestant comprehensive schools and how they sit within the context of education in Ireland and further afield.
‘It was with great sadness that I learned of the death of Bishop Tony Farqhuar, priest, sportsman, ecumenist and raconteur.’
Bishops’ Appeal warmly welcomes the support of Bishop Michael Burrows in his peregrination around the dioceses of Tuam, Limerick and Killaloe this month and early December.
Mike Buchanan, recently ordained to serve as a deacon in the Navan Union of Parishes, chats about how a sense of community service runs through his ministry and draws on his 31–year career in policing with An Garda Síochána at home and the UN’s peace–keepers in Cyprus.
A group of Church Leaders from Ireland participated in a special ceremony to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Island of Ireland Peace Park, in the village of Messines on Sunday afternoon (12th November).
